SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Step 1: Rethink your security architecture Zero Trust requires securing every layer—network, applications, identity, and access—while enforcing least privilege. Google moved away from VPNs, instead using device-based authentication and continuous access verification, ensuring that each access request is authenticated.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Our research reveals 69% of breaches are rooted in inadequate authentication and 78% of organizations have been targeted by identity-based attacks. To mitigate risks, organizations must enforce Zero-Trust principles, limit AI access to privileged accounts, and sanitize AI prompts.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Experts warn that organizations must act decisively to protect against this growing threat by implementing Zero Trust architectures, patching vulnerabilities, and strengthening identity security. Strengthening identity security Enforce phishing-resistant MFA for all privileged accounts. Use Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2025

Rather, this attack targets the victim’s digital identity, taking advantage of the widespread shift toward cloud-based enterprise storage and the fact that browser-based authentication is the primary gateway to accessing these resources. The browser-native ransomware disclosure is part of the Year of Browser Bugs project.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) should be enhanced with AI-driven behavioral analysis to detect fraudulent activity. Organizations should integrate AI-driven risk scoring into their Zero Trust architecture. The report emphasizes the importance of transparency, explainability, and accountability in AI-driven security decisions.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2025

The extension then silently authenticates the victim into a Chrome profile managed by the attackers Google Workspace. Once this authentication occurs, the attacker has full control over the newly managed profile in the victims browser, allowing them to push automated policies such as disabling safe browsing and other security features.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Users may also need to re authenticate themselves if they choose to switch tasks or have been inactive for a set amount of time. How you choose to authenticate users is up to you. The post How to evolve your organization into a data-centric security architecture appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 23, 2024

When reading the title of this blog, you might be wondering to yourself why RADIUS is being highlighted as a subject — especially amidst all of the advancements of modern authentication we see taking place recently. Instead, it supports a variety of authentication protocols , including EAP, PAP, CHAP, and others. What is RADIUS?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2023

Cloud account takeover scheme utilizing EvilProxy hit over 100 top-level executives of global organizations EvilProxy was observed sending 120,000 phishing emails to over a hundred organizations to steal Microsoft 365 accounts. Proofpoint noticed a worrisome surge of successful cloud account compromises in the past five months.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Importantly, none appeared to have suffered the sorts of attacks that typically preface a high-dollar crypto heist, such as the compromise of one’s email and/or mobile phone accounts. “If you have my seed phrase, you can copy and paste that into your wallet, and then you can see all my accounts.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2022

The NSA’s 58-page Network Infrastructure Security Guidance (PDF) is more of a catalog of network security best practices, based on principles of zero trust and segmentation , following up on brief January guidance (PDF) on segmentation that discussed the Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture (image below).

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

Chris Clements, VP of Solutions Architecture, Cerberus Sentinel. The attacker claims to have compromised an end-of-lifed GPRS system that was exposed to the internet and was able to pivot from it to the internal network, where they were able to launch a brute force authentication attack against internal systems.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 28, 2024

In the advisory , Check Point says the attackers are targeting security gateways with old local accounts using insecure password-only authentication, which should be used with certificate authentication to prevent breaches. "We Switching from weak authentication to stronger authentication has multiple benefits.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 18, 2025

Thales OneWelcome Identity Platform and HIPAA Compliance in 2025 madhav Wed, 03/19/2025 - 05:58 The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has undergone significant changes in 2025, introducing enhanced requirements to address growing cyber threats and ensure comprehensive data protection.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 22, 2025

As automated traffic accounts for more than half of all web activity, organizations face heightened risks from bad bots, which are becoming more prolific every day. Simple, high-volume attacks have soared, now accounting for 45% of all bot attacks, compared to only 40% in 2023.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

Not all multi-factor authentication (MFA) solutions are equal. For a two-factor authentication solution, that may include hidden costs, such as upfront, capital, licensing, support, maintenance, and operating costs. Estimate and plan for how much it will cost to deploy multi-factor authentication to all of your apps and users.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 5, 2021

In the series, we’ll go through how application architecture and the attack surface is changing, how application security needs to evolve to deal with these disruptions, and how to empower security in an environment where DevOps rules the roost. Application Architecture Today. It talks in a different language.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 8, 2024

The number represents a significant portion of the world's online user base, raising concerns about the security of countless online accounts across various platforms. For individual users, the exposure of passwords means an increased risk of account takeovers, identity theft, and fraud.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 13, 2025

While the AI-generated malware in this case required manual intervention to function, the fact that these systems can produce even semi-functional malicious code is a clear signal that security teams need to adapt their strategies to account for this emerging threat vector."

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 21, 2020

It's a conceptual architectural approach built upon an ecosystem that creates an environment for a holistic security posture. Zero Trust is a combination of technologies, implemented within an architecture developed to support a holistic security initiative and strategy. Zero Trust is not a technology, product, or solution.

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SecureList

MARCH 12, 2024

More than a third (39%) used the microservice architecture. Broken Authentication 5. Broken Authentication 5. Mitigation: implement authentication and authorization controls according to the role-based access model. Most of the web applications were owned by companies based in Russia, China and the Middle East.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Technical components: Website architecture must be reconfigured to ensure that search engines see multiple language versions of your website properlyas different subsets, not as duplicates. Religious and cultural taboos should be taken into account to prevent alienation of your audiences in the new market.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Single sign-on” (SSO) is an authentication method that allows users to enter one set of authentication credentials to access multiple websites, applications, and services. The goal of SSO is to streamline the authentication process by eliminating the need to enter different usernames and passwords for each resource.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The Netlogon service is an Authentication Mechanism used in the Windows Client Authentication Architecture which verifies logon requests, and it registers, authenticates, and locates Domain Controllers. The CVE-2020-1472 flaw is an elevation of privilege that resides in the Netlogon.

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SecureList

APRIL 25, 2025

The modular architecture of the malware gives attackers virtually unlimited control over the system, enabling them to tailor functionality to specific applications. Depending on the system architecture, it decodes and loads a native helper library. A copy of the Trojan infiltrates every application launched on an infected device.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The threat intelligence platforms and detection and response systems installed far and wide, in SMBs and large enterprises alike, simply are not doing a terrific job at accounting for how APIs are facilitating multi-staged network breaches. A startling 95% of API attacks happen on authenticated endpoints. Dearth of planning.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2022

RapperBot has limited DDoS capabilities, it was designed to target ARM, MIPS, SPARC, and x86 architectures. “Unlike the majority of Mirai variants, which natively brute force Telnet servers using default or weak passwords, RapperBot exclusively scans and attempts to brute force SSH servers configured to accept password authentication.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

Your business can use LastPass to maintain unique passwords for each employee’s online accounts—a critical practice for modern cybersecurity health. Two unique features that LastPass offers are support for multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO). Notable LastPass features: MFA, SSO, and more. LastPass pricing.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The first vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to publish new versions of any npm package using an account without proper authorization. In this architecture, the authorization service was properly validating user authorization to packages based on data passed in request URL paths.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2020

The malicious updates employed in the Zerologon attacks are able to bypass the user account control (UAC) security feature in Windows and abuse the Windows Script Host tool (wscript.exe) to execute malicious scripts. Security experts from cyber-security firm Prevailion reported that TA505 has compromised more than 1,000 organizations.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2021

Threat actors carried out brute-force and password spraying attacks in an attempt to gain access to Microsoft customer accounts. Microsoft highlights the importance of best practices such as Zero-trust architecture and multi-factor authentication to prevent these attacks.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Dunkin' Donuts (2015-2018): The company faced multiple credential stuffing attacks that led to unauthorized access to customer accounts. Sonic Drive-In (2017): The fast-food chain experienced a breach that potentially impacted millions of credit and debit card accounts. Subway U.K. 2020): The sandwich chain's U.K. Requirement 7.2.5:

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

This shift has made identity-first security a core component of modern security initiatives, such as zero trust architecture and cloud-first strategies. Managing these diverse sets of users with multiple accounts can be challenging, especially if multiple identity stores and identity providers are involved.

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Duo's Security Blog

AUGUST 1, 2022

focuses on developing stronger authentication requirements around NIST Zero Trust Architecture guidelines. now mandates that multi-factor authentication (MFA) must be used for all accounts that have access to the cardholder data, not just administrators accessing the cardholder data environment (CDE).

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Meanwhile, more than half, some 57 percent, of consumers polled by DigiCert acknowledged that they’ve experienced cybersecurity issues such as account takeovers, password exposure and payment card fraud. At a macro level, this means security must somehow get deeply baked into leading-edge IT architectures. Baked-in security.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 23, 2024

This reduces the potential damage from compromised accounts by limiting their access to critical data and systems. Verify, don't trust This principle emphasizes continuous authentication and authorization based on all available data points. This reduces the risk of credential theft and unauthorized access.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 3, 2024

This allowed the threat actor to access and exfiltrate data hosted on the Snowflake platform across multiple customer accounts. Demo accounts are not connected to Snowflake's production or corporate systems. Demo accounts are not connected to Snowflake's production or corporate systems. It did not contain sensitive data.

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